Chapter Summaries

Xu Jintang and her teammates tested their new abilities in a simulated battle, and she sold Xue Zhongqi several homing inscriptions. After receiving orders to complete a half-month internship at Sector S Border Defense Star City, the five set off, with Xu Jintang already suffering from airsickness aboard the spacecraft.

• Yan Yuting showed Xu Jintang her Toast Taro Bun ability, which granted forty percent damage reduction, prompting Xu to resume cultivating after Xue Zhongqi predicted he would reach the second tier soon.
• Xu Jintang arranged an arena assessment, and her team defeated Song Tianqi and Jiang Shiyi using Xue Zhongqi's life-sharing ability and her newly enhanced homing crossbow.
• Xu Jintang sold Xue Zhongqi five homing inscriptions for twenty thousand star coins each, then secretly made and delivered them two days later.
• Zhuang Silin informed Xu Jintang and her four teammates that they would spend half a month interning at Sector S Border Defense Star City, and advised them to obey military rules and bring their Leikedasi badges.
• The five assembled at the space transit hub, received Zhuang Silin's final instructions, and boarded their spacecraft for Sector S.
• Xu Jintang searched the spacecraft lounge for someone to treat her airsickness, surprising Song Tianqi.

Xu Jintang and the other military academy interns arrived at the Area S Border Defense Star City and were assigned to the military dormitories and logistics team. When they reached logistics, a fight was already underway, and Miao Ruijia pulled Xu Jintang into the melee.

• Xu Jintang learned that the interns would complete their assignments after receiving badges and that killing demonic beasts could earn military merit.
• Zhu Xiangming welcomed Xu Jintang, Song Tianqi, and the others, explained military ranks, and brought them to the military headquarters.
• The captain sent the interns to their barracks, and Zhu Xiangming escorted Xu Jintang, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi toward the logistics team.
• Xu Jintang and her companions arrived to find Miao Ruijia and the logistics team fighting He Yingjie’s group.
• Xu Jintang deflected a dagger with her sleeve crossbow, but Miao Ruijia urged the interns to join the fight and a whip dragged Xu Jintang into the melee.

Xu Jintang and her teammates joined the army’s logistics team, where she helped end a fight and learned how their support abilities would be used. After meeting their roommates and being assigned training, Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting followed Luo Yingtong to a demonic beast rearing ground for their first encounter with real beasts.

• Xu Jintang extinguished a flame whip, defeated its wielder, and helped stop the fight between Miao Ruijia’s logistics team and He Yingjie’s group.
• Miao Ruijia explained the logistics team’s work and told Yan Yuting that her toast-producing ability could support troops from the rear.
• Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting entered their dorm room, heard their roommates disparage military academy students, and met Luo Yingtong, who was assigned to train them.
• Luo Yingtong led Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting toward the army’s demonic beast rearing ground and explained that they would encounter real beasts for their first lesson.
• Luo Yingtong passed facial recognition at the electrified security gate, which opened into the rearing ground.

Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting completed their first contact with real demonic beasts and learned that Luo Yingtong planned to take them to beast combat training the next day. At the logistics counter, He Yingjie tried to seize them, but Miao Ruijia arrived and confronted him.

• Luo Yingtong had Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting touch the cages holding demonic beasts, and both overcame their fear.
• After Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting handled the exercise well, Luo Yingtong said she would seek permission to take them to beast combat training the next morning.
• Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting met Zhu Xiangming at the logistics counter, where he explained that ability-enhancing supplies were being distributed.
• He Yingjie and his men confronted Xu Jintang, and she caught and threw back a whip aimed at her.
• He Yingjie ordered his men to take Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting away, but the two warned him about their homeroom teacher and Miao Ruijia arrived, angrily challenging him.

Xu Jintang wagered that she could defeat a first-tier demonic beast, betting that Zhou Yu and his men would endure a week of public humiliation if she won. She entered the arena to face a Flowing Fire Lizard, and the fight began with her first bolt bouncing off its scales.

• After He Yingjie was punished with a week of camp cleaning, Xu Jintang and Yan Yuting began their beast combat training under Luo Yingtong.
• Zhou Yu and his men arrived to watch and mocked the logistics team, prompting Xu Jintang to wager that she could defeat the beast and make them serve a week of public punishment if she won.
• Xu Jintang and Zhou Yu put the wager in writing; Xu Jintang clarified that she could only fight a first-tier beast, and Luo Yingtong warned her about the risk.
• A first-tier Flowing Fire Lizard entered the arena, and Xu Jintang recognized it as a kind she had fought in Blizzard Forest.
• When the battle began, Xu Jintang fired a homing bolt that bounced off the lizard’s scales, then leaped over it as ice attribute descended.

Xu Jintang defeated a Flowing Fire Lizard, but Zhou Yu and He Yingjie accused the logistics team of cheating. After tests cleared them, He Yingjie compensated Xu Jintang with a Tongbao Spirit Realm token, and Zhou Yu's team had to honor their bet.

• Xu Jintang knocked out the Flowing Fire Lizard in under a minute, and Zhou Yu accused the logistics team of drugging it.
• Captain Song ordered the Flowing Fire Lizard tested, and the military doctor reported that all drug tests were negative.
• Captain Song found He Yingjie guilty of falsely accusing the logistics team and ordered him to compensate Xu Jintang.
• He Yingjie gave Xu Jintang a Tongbao Spirit Realm token, which Miao Ruijia confirmed was genuine and valuable.
• Captain Song ordered Zhou Yu's team to honor the bet, and Miao Ruijia explained that He Yingjie had offered the token to avoid a harsher punishment.

Xu Jintang learned that demonic beasts were being driven from the Extreme Cold Forest by a contest over a ten-thousand-year snow lotus, threatening Sector S Border Defense Star City. The military declared its first level-one alert, and Miao Ruijia told the assembled logistics team that the cause of the beasts’ rampage was still unclear.

• Xu Jintang put away He Yingjie's Tongbao Spirit Realm token, then watched Zhou Yu and the others fulfill their bet by declaring they were no match for the logistics team.
• Luo Yingtong took Xu Jintang, Xue Zhongqi, and Yan Yuting into the city for a meal, where they discussed military service and promotions.
• Miao Ruijia summoned Luo Yingtong back to the barracks for an emergency meeting, and the group hurried back after finishing their meal.
• The Ice Soul Dragon told Xu Jintang that three peak eighth-tier lord demonic beasts were driving other beasts from the Extreme Cold Forest to compete for a ten-thousand-year snow lotus, putting nearby human cities at risk.
• After the emergency meeting, the military district sounded its first level-one alert, and Miao Ruijia told the assembled logistics team that satellites had detected large numbers of demonic beasts rampaging out of the Extreme Cold Forest.

With the Ice Soul Dragon’s return triggering a level-one alert, Xu Jintang and her classmates were ordered to leave the combat zone. After the academy teachers arrived to evacuate them, Xu Jintang secretly stayed behind and prepared to travel with the Ice Soul Dragon to Extreme Cold Forest.

• Miao Ruijia warned that rampaging demonic beasts could reach Area S within two days and rallied the logistics team to fight.
• Xu Jintang persuaded Yan Yuting, Xue Zhongqi, and Song Tianqi that the students were too weak to help, and Zhuang Silin ordered Xu Jintang to keep everyone safe until the teachers arrived.
• The military zone entered level-one alert, and Xu Jintang and the other students stayed with the logistics team while awaiting pickup.
• Two days later, Zhuang Silin arrived with teachers from the five military academies and brought the students aboard an aircraft.
• After the aircraft took off, Xu Jintang secretly left it behind and met the Ice Soul Dragon at the space transit hub.
• The Ice Soul Dragon formed a tangible body from its divine sense and carried Xu Jintang toward Extreme Cold Forest.

Xu Jintang and the Ice Soul Dragon traveled to the Extreme Cold Forest, where she collected rare spirit plants from the dragon’s former cave and claimed a ten-thousand-year snow lotus from three eighth-tier demonic beasts. After the dragon’s weakened aura raised suspicion, Xu Jintang decided they should leave immediately rather than risk returning to the ice pool.

• The Ice Soul Dragon flew Xu Jintang to the Extreme Cold Forest, where she gathered fifty-eight kinds of spirit plants from its former cave.
• Xu Jintang and the Ice Soul Dragon approached the mountaintop as three eighth-tier demonic beasts argued over the nearly mature ten-thousand-year snow lotus.
• The Ice Soul Dragon intimidated the three beasts with its divine aura and took the mature snow lotus for Xu Jintang.
• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx suspected the Ice Soul Dragon was badly weakened and considered attacking it.
• Xu Jintang chose to leave the forest with the snow lotus instead of risking a trip back to the ice pool.

Xu Jintang was captured by the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx, but mysterious scales in her sea of consciousness suppressed him and forced him into a contract with her. After she absorbed the ten-thousand-year snow lotus, she advanced to peak third tier while the Ice Soul Dragon prepared to recuperate.

• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx attacked the Ice Soul Dragon and seized Xu Jintang, demanding the snow lotus, dragon bones, and dragon blood in exchange for her release.
• The scales in Xu Jintang's sea of consciousness unleashed their power, incapacitated the Archaeopteryx, and forced him to agree to a contract with her.
• Xu Jintang woke to find the Archaeopteryx bound to her as a contracted beast and used the contract formation to make him accept her authority.
• Xu Jintang entered the icy pool and absorbed the ten-thousand-year snow lotus while the Archaeopteryx guarded the cave and the Ice Soul Dragon watched over her.
• Xu Jintang advanced two tiers to peak third tier, and the Ice Soul Dragon said he needed to sleep and recover.

Xu Jintang returned to the Sector S border defense army after the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx recalled the attacking demonic beasts. She hid him as a parrot and invented an account of her sudden rise in strength, leaving Miao Ruijia and Luo Yingtong astonished by her peak third-tier mental power.

• Xu Jintang persuaded the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx to fly her back and learned that their contract would free him when she reached the eighth tier.
• Xu Jintang asked the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx to recall the demonic beasts attacking Sector S’s border defenses.
• The demonic beasts stopped their assault and retreated after a birdcall, while Xu Jintang returned to the army’s deserted logistics area.
• The Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx disguised himself as a green parrot when Luo Yingtong and Miao Ruijia found Xu Jintang.
• Xu Jintang claimed a powerful bird had taken her to a cave full of spirit plants, which she ate on her way back, and presented the Archaeopteryx as a first-tier parrot.
• Xu Jintang told Miao Ruijia that her mental power had reached peak third tier, leaving Miao Ruijia and Luo Yingtong stunned.

After returning safely to the military camp, Xu Jintang mastered her enhanced ice abilities and learned that most of the demonic beasts had retreated. When leftover beasts attacked the logistics area at night, she froze them all within her Domain of Ice, leaving Luo Yingtong and the others stunned.

• Luo Yingtong told Xu Jintang to inform her teacher and friends that she was safe and warned her not to act impulsively again.
• Xu Jintang called Zhuang Silin, who ordered her to stay put until she could pick her up, then reassured Yan Yuting and the others in their group chat.
• Xu Jintang tested the freezing effect of her ice domain and reviewed her new Chains of Ice and Ice Blade Storm abilities.
• Luo Yingtong gave Xu Jintang ability-enhancing lollipops and reported that most of the demonic beasts had retreated.
• The green-membraned archaeopteryx warned Xu Jintang that low-tier beasts were approaching, so she went west as the camp sounded the alarm.
• Xu Jintang used an attack-boosting lollipop and froze the attacking beasts with her Domain of Ice, stunning Luo Yingtong and the others when they arrived.

After revealing that her support ability had evolved into powerful ice manipulation, Xu Jintang helped Luo Yingtong’s team fend off Zhou Yu’s attempt to seize their cleanup area. A strange collapse exposed a possible underground passage in the forest, and Captain Song ordered Miao Ruijia and He Yingjie to investigate together.

• Xu Jintang explained her evolved ability to Miao Ruijia and the others, who learned it could freeze a wide area.
• The next morning, Xu Jintang joined Luo Yingtong’s team to collect inner cores and clear demonic beast corpses, and steadied herself after seeing a fallen teammate’s body.
• Zhou Yu confronted Luo Yingtong’s team and claimed their cleanup area, so Xu Jintang froze the corpses and ground to delay his team’s work.
• A crash outside the city drew attention to a suspected underground passage in the nearby forest, possibly exposed when retreating demonic beasts triggered a mechanism.
• Captain Song ordered Miao Ruijia and He Yingjie to investigate the passage together because it might contain high-tier demonic beasts.

Xu Jintang joined a scouting mission into an underground tomb, where she was separated from the others by a trap and destroyed a powerful statue with the silver light from the scales in her sea of consciousness. The scales’ mysterious voice then warned that it was out of energy, leaving Xu Jintang unable to rely on it again soon.

• Xu Jintang persuaded Miao Ruijia to let her join the scouting mission, and the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx told her the underground passage was likely a tomb filled with treasures and traps.
• He Yingjie led the teams into the passage, and Xu Jintang followed the left path after the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx sensed stronger energy there.
• Miao Ruijia chose the left passage at a second fork, where the team fought off dozens of Scale Snakes before a tremor triggered hidden doors that pulled Xu Jintang and others into a trap.
• Xu Jintang froze the golden statue but could not stop its deadly beams, so she awakened the scales’ power and blasted the statue into powder with silver light.
• A child’s voice from the scales said it was out of energy and told Xu Jintang to improve her mental power, while the Ice Soul Dragon woke and the voice then fell silent.

Xu Jintang used her detection ability to guide Miao Ruijia’s team through the underground tomb and out, where they discovered a crystal coffin containing a token that resembled Xu Jintang’s own. She returned with Miao Ruijia to search for the missing team and found He Yingjie’s group, whose members questioned why the rescuers had come from that direction.

• After the statue shattered, Xu Jintang and the logistics team were pulled back into the passage, and they agreed to seek reinforcements before continuing.
• Xu Jintang detected a route through the tunnels, led the team past the traps, and found the central burial chamber and its exit.
• Xu Jintang noticed a token in the crystal coffin that matched her Tongbao Spirit Realm Token’s design but bore different writing, then left without opening the coffin.
• Miao Ruijia returned with Xu Jintang to search the tomb for the other trapped team, and they found He Yingjie and his injured companions.
• He Yingjie asked why Xu Jintang and Miao Ruijia had arrived from that direction.

Xu Jintang secretly took the Heaven and Earth Token from the tomb before it collapsed and learned that it could open the Tongbao Spirit Realm early. After earning a thousand military merits and promotion to soldier, she kept the token’s ownership secret as the army resumed training.

• Xu Jintang led Miao Ruijia’s team and He Yingjie’s survivors out of the tomb, then slipped back to take the Heaven and Earth Token from the crystal coffin, triggering the tomb’s collapse.
• Xu Jintang bound the Heaven and Earth Token to herself and learned that it could grant protection in the Tongbao Spirit Realm and let her open it early; she decided to wait until she reached the fifth tier.
• Captain Song rewarded Xu Jintang with one thousand military merits, enough to promote her to soldier, after she declined other rewards.
• Luo Yingtong told Xu Jintang that the Heaven and Earth Token had an owner and the spirit realm could open early, while Xu Jintang pretended not to know; the army returned to its usual training routine the next morning.

Xu Jintang returned from her time with the military after earning an officer’s insignia and demonstrating her newly evolved ice abilities to Zhuang Silin. Back at the villa, she told her classmates about an upcoming friendly match against Yu Wanyao’s team and urged them to stay focused on training.

• Xu Jintang said goodbye to Miao Ruijia, who gave her a military rank insignia and warned her to explain her secret stay with the military to Zhuang Silin.
• At the transit hub, Xu Jintang overheard a Federation Bureau team investigating the Ice Soul Dragon’s aura and quietly hoped its presumed survival would keep suspicion away from her.
• Zhuang Silin tested Xu Jintang’s Chains of Ice and Ice Blade Storm, praised her strength, and told her the experimental class would face Yu Wanyao’s five-person team in a friendly match.
• Xu Jintang returned to the villa and caught Yan Yuting reporting that Song Tianqi and Xue Zhongqi had spent the day playing holographic racing instead of cultivating.
• Xu Jintang warned her classmates not to neglect their training ahead of the match, then agreed to bring them along next time and cautioned Xue Zhongqi that the military tomb had been dangerous.

Xu Jintang briefed her classmates on their improved abilities and led a practice match that ended in a decisive victory for her team. Later, she read that Silver Light Military Academy’s first-year students were coming to challenge Leikedasi, setting up their upcoming friendly match.

• Xu Jintang revealed that her mental power had reached peak third tier and that her evolved Domain of Ice gave her Chains of Ice and Ice Blade Storm.
• The class drew teams for a practice match, placing Xu Jintang and Jiang Shiyi against Song Tianqi, Yan Yuting, and Xue Zhongqi.
• Jiang Shiyi eliminated Yan Yuting, and Xu Jintang defeated Song Tianqi as the two-person team won within three minutes.
• Xu Jintang and her classmates discussed the strengths of their likely rivals, including Wei Zixuan and Yu Wanyao, before ending training.
• Xu Jintang read a military academy forum thread reporting that Silver Light Military Academy’s first-year freshmen were coming to challenge Leikedasi.

Xu Jintang and her experimental class prepared for a high-stakes friendly match against Yu Wanyao’s team, then welcomed the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx back to the villa. She bought him a basic pet beast space despite his demands for a luxury one, then went to cultivate.

• Xu Jintang learned that the friendly match against Yu Wanyao’s team would take place the next morning, and Wei Zixuan threatened to crush the experimental class after learning they had kept it secret.
• Zhuang Silin showed Xu Jintang and the others a recording of Yu Wanyao’s team, and they discussed the opponents’ strengths before agreeing they would win.
• Song Tianqi mistook the returning Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx for a stray parrot, and Xu Jintang explained that he was her contracted beast.
• Yan Yuting told Xu Jintang about pet beast spaces, and Xu Jintang ordered the basic version after refusing the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx’s request for the luxury one.
• Xu Jintang left the Green-Membrane Archaeopteryx protesting and went to the cultivation room to cultivate.

Xu Jintang’s team faced Yu Wanyao’s team in a friendly academy match, where Xu revealed the full force of her evolved ice ability. The match ended with Yu Wanyao’s team eliminated and Xu’s side victorious.

• Xu Jintang and Yu Wanyao’s teams exchanged challenges before the academy leaders gathered to watch their match.
• Xu Jintang attacked with ice chains, while Wei Zixuan summoned the Twin-Winged Beast to heal and strengthen his teammates, and Yan Yuting supplied her team with buffing toast.
• Xu Jintang’s Ice Blade Storm overwhelmed Yu Wanyao’s defenses, and her Absolute Freeze covered half the arena, prompting Zhuang Silin to eliminate Yu Wanyao and Mu Guang.
• Wei Zixuan’s illusion attack briefly dazed Xu Jintang, but the Ice Soul Dragon protected her consciousness and Yan Yuting pulled Wei away with her whip before Xu restrained him with ice chains.
• Jiang Shiyi blasted Yan Zitao and Qin Shuxue out of the arena, leaving Yu Wanyao’s team eliminated and Xu Jintang’s team victorious.